THE cages are small, the conditions squalid and no interaction is allowed. This is how a research centre in Holland treats the chimps it uses to test its products.

The good news is that it's the last research centre in Europe which still experiments on chimps, and campaigners are pressurising the European Parliament into closing it.

Readers can help by writing to Gary Titley MEP at 16, Spring Lane, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 2TQ urging his support.

SARA LEE,

Bury Old Road, Whitefield.